Community / Communauté
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CCTV Fashion Police
In much of Canada, the introduction of CCTV by police to monitor public space is still in its infancy, passionately supported in some quarters, denounced...
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Street market? No, a railway market
[youtube]xSqNx7vJLDE[/youtube] Spacing reader Mark Slutsky sent us a link to this video today, showing a market lining a railway in Thailand. Within...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Chinatown’s changing, but it’s still a vital place
Chinatown is changing: new businesses are opening and a set of vacant lots on St. Laurent is set to be transformed next year into a $20 million shopping...
By Christopher DeWolf -
SPACING MONTREAL POLL: Do you jaywalk?
Montrealers are known for the tendency to cross the street wherever they want. Simply put, most of us have no aversion to jaywalking, and there’s no...
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Taking ephemeral art to the streets
Nobody like a self-promoter, so it feels awfully gauche to be writing about my own articles twice in a single day. Don’t judge me too harshly! In...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Expanding a museum, saving a church
At the end of the year, the Museum of Fine Arts will start work on a new expansion that will engulf the former Erskine and American Church, located across...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Last stop for reasonable accommodation
After slogging its way through 16 other towns and cities — 14 of which were nowhere near Greater Montreal, the only place in Quebec with a large...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Steps are good for sitting
McGill University’s “Arts steps” It would hardly be an original observation to point out that a simple set of steps can become a...
By Christopher DeWolf -
The Gazette’s three-part series on Mile End
Is Mile End at the pinnacle of coolness? Some think so. The eclectic, multicultural neighbourhood now finds itself at the centre of Montreal’s music...
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This is a construction site: why don’t you come in?
This month, Caroline Dubois and Julie Favreau, have taken over a storefront at 280 Beaubien St. East for an artistic intervention organized, in part, by...
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The only constant is change: Mile End’s religious heritage
Constant cultural change has long been the signature of multi-ethnic neighbourhoods like the Mile End. Yesterday, in a lecture at the Mile End Library...
By Jacob Larsen -
Where to get a drink in Montreal in 1950
You can thank the brothers Gravenor at Coolopolis for this map of every single tavern, pub and brasserie in Montreal, circa 1950. (Don’t ask me how...
By Christopher DeWolf